Reply #8: Moral absolutism: Freud would say projection. [View All]

[TalkingDog]

These people want to fuck their brains out. They want to do dirty, nasty things to each other...over and over and over. But they have been taught that those things are, well, dirty and nasty i.e. bad. So they repress it in themselves and want to repress it in others.

It's so dangerous for them to even think about letting that monster out (and I'm not just talking about the one in their pants) that they can't stand the tension of seeing other people do the things they REALLY want to do and not suffering for it.

Freud felt that people who become policemen are really only trying to repress their own evil by repressing it in others.

Jung basically said the same thing, but he called it the rejecting the Shadow self.

What you hate in others you fear in yourself.

(I, for one, embrace my dark side.)